The Facebook group is far more active than this board. This board is pretty much exclusively Boomer, Gen X, and older Millennial fans, almost all of whom are male. That's not what I see on Facebook, which is a far better reflection of the alumni. I don't know about you, but I don't even see an influx of new posters with each freshman (or graduating) class anymore. It was never a flood, but where's the old, steady trickle? Where are the Maniacs of today?
The board is atrophying, maybe dying. Outside of the absence of the Froghorn splitters, if we looked at the top posters in most threads today, how different is that list compared to five or fifteen years ago? Sure, some people have passed on. Others have changed handles. But where are the newbies?
This type of format appears to be in decline. I see the same thing happening at Surly, though slower because it is a much larger user base and the site, even counting its origin as Shaggy, is much younger.